Creating a Harbor instance

This guide covers the deployment of a self-hosted Harbor service.

To proceed, make sure you have an account in Cleura Cloud, and you are logged in to the Cleura Cloud Management Panel.

Step-by-step deployment

In the left vertical pane of the Cleura Cloud Management Panel, expand the Marketplace category and click on Discover Apps and Services. In the central pane, you will see all available applications and services. Locate the Harbor box and click the green View button.

You will see the Harbor information page, where you can learn more about its features, and obtain pricing information. Click the orange Deploy this App button to start the deployment process.

The Harbor application is hosted on a Nova VM, so now you may select a region, a name, a flavor, a public network, a keypair, and a security group for it. Regarding the security group, make sure it includes a rule allowing incoming TCP connections to port 80.

Read and agree to the Terms and Conditions. When you are ready, click the green Create button.

The deployment takes some minutes to complete. To check how it is going, expand the Marketplace category in the vertical pane on the left and click Provisioned Apps. In the central pane, watch the Harbor Heat stack row. The animated icon at the left marks the deployment progress.

When the deployment is complete, you will see a white check mark in a green circle.

Logging into the Harbor dashboard

You must know Harbor’s public IP address and the password automatically generated for the admin user. For that, make sure you are in the Provisioned Apps pane. Click on the Harbor row to expand it, and select the Stack Output tab.

In the admin_credentials row, click the icon in the Action column. A pop-up window appears. Click the blue Copy Output! button to copy the content of the Output box to the clipboard. Paste that into a new text editor window, but don’t save it in a new file. Instead, we recommend you create a new entry in your password manager of choice and move the username and the password there. Close the pop-up window by clicking on the Back button.

Next, get a pop-up window revealing the particular Harbor deployment’s public IP address. Click the icon in the Action column of the harbor_url row, then click the blue Copy Output! button. Use the IP address to create a URL of the form http://<public-ip>, and put that URL into the Harbor password manager entry.

Using your favorite web browser, navigate to http://<public-ip>. The Harbor login page appears. In the left vertical pane, type in the user name (admin), paste the password from your password manager, and click the LOG IN button below.

You are directed to the Harbor main page.

On a separate browser window or tab, navigate to the Harbor documentation page to learn how to start using your new self-hosted container registry.